Tuesday, October 15, 2013

IAN ALLENYE is UNC St Joseph candidate

File: Ian Alleyne making an unexpected appearance at a PP meeting in San Fernando

Ian Alleyne is the candidate for the People's Partnership for the St Joseph byelection on November 4th.

The CRIME WATCH host filed his nomination papers on Monday for the United National Congress (UNC), the PP member that held the seat that it won in the 2010 general election.

He will be fighting against his former lawyer, Om Lalla, who is the candidate for the new Independent Liberal Party (ILP), led by former PP cabinet minister Jack Warner, and Terrence Deyalsingh of the People's National Movement.

There is also an independent candidate in the race - comedian and broadcaster Errol Fabien. The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) has decided not to have a candidate and has instead endorsed Fabien. A fifth candidate is Michael Lopez, representing the Democratiuc National Alliance (DNA) led by Kirk Meighoo.

The seat was previously held by former judge Herbert Volney, who fell out with the UNC over his sacking from cabinet over the Section 34 matter. He resigned from the UNC and was later expelled from Parliament because he was no longer a member of the party on whose ticket he won the seat.

Since 2000 the seat has been held by the UNC except for the 2007 general election when the PNM's Kennedy Swaratsingh won with a minority vote due to the vote splitting between the UNC Alliance and the Congress of the People (COP). In that election the combined opposition won more than 9,000 votes but the PNM won with just under 8,000 votes.

2007

Dr Carson Charles UNC 4,945 (29.0%)

Gillian Lucky COP 4,145 (24.3%)

Kennedy SWARATSINGH PNM 7,965 (46.7%)

In the 2010 election there were only two candidates and the UNC won with nearly 11,000 votes.

2010

Kennedy Swaratsingh PNM 7,778 - 41.8% (-04.9)

Herbert VOLNEYUNC 10,835 - 58.2% (+29.2)

In 2013 there are going to be five names on the ballot. The ILP claims that it is taking support from both the PNM and the UNC. If that is true the party could erode the support of both parties and possibly win. But if its strength is from the UNC support base, then it could pave the way for an easy victory for the PNM.

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JAI PARASRAM retired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on Nov. 30, 2013 after a quarter of a century at the Corporation. He was a member of the team that inaugurated Newsworld, the CBC's 24-hour cable news service. He produced and edited the first newscast for the service on July 31, 1989. He was a Producer on the team that won a GEMINI AWARD for the coverage of the SwissAir disaster in Nova Scotia in 1998. Jai left Newsworld in 1998 and established Jyoti Communication. His main projects have involved training journalists, program development for radio and television, corporate imaging, event management and media projects for clients in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Jai returned to the CBC in 2003 and worked with the online service CBC.ca until his retirement. Jai's career began in his native Trinidad in 1972. He has worked mostly in television, as a reporter, editor, producer, interviewer, news anchor and executive producer. He has won several awards for excellence in journalism and broadcasting. Jai, who is also a documentary producer, holds a Master of Journalism degree (MJ) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.